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Welcome to Mr Tattie Heid's very own website. The main feature is my travel journal, The North Atlantic Arc, and accompanying photographs. This continues to expand as I make more travels, and fill in on some of my past journeys. Elsewhere was created for pages on travel to places outside the North Atlantic Arc. Portfolios is home for various in-depth photo essays; so far, all of the content there is related to my 2007 trip.
Suggestions, comments, and questions are always welcome. Email: MrTattieHeid@aol.com
The photos on this site have been formatted to look best with a screen resolution of 1024 x 768. I wanted them to look their best, so they are fairly large, and the photo pages will take a few minutes to open. If you're still using dial-up, open the page, go out and reshingle your roof, and by the time you're done, the page should be fully loaded.
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What's New:
11 August 2008--The 5,000th hit came on 3 August. After some considerable delay due to health issues and uncertainty over airfare, I am now well into planning for this October's trip. It'll be a little shorter this year, thirty days, but it should be a good one. I'm finally learning to spend three or four nights in each stop. The difficulty, as always, is deciding what to leave out. Of course, this means the next two years' trips are half planned already!
19 May 2008--My report on the Clear Creek Distillery, completed some time ago, is finally public (accessible via the Elsewhere page).
I've been contemplating new content for a while now--too long, really--and hope to get on posting some soon. The embarrassingly unconstructed Ireland and France pages ought to be a priority. Work and the Red Sox stand in the way....
12 February 2008--Yesterday this site garnered its 3,000th hit, from someone on the Isle of Man googling road tunnels in the Faroe Islands. Most of my hits are like this, casual visitors looking for info on or photos of various places, and the Faroe page might be the most popular. I guess that's because there isn't a lot of information on the Faroe Islands out there, and anyone doing a search inevitably finds my stuff. Reminds me that I still need to rescan some of the more amateurishly done photos on that page. I'm also reminded that I want to go to the Isle of Man one of these days.
I did not note it here at the time, but the 2,000th hit was made by Mr Blindhæd his own self.
That last roll of slides is still undeveloped.
18 January 2008--I have completed a massive reorganization of SP2BoL. There are now seven pages with thirty photos on each. Rearranging the pages allowed me to keep them from being too too large, while adding more photos--there are new photos on every page, as well as in all of the Portfolios except Knoydart and Glen Coe. There are also two new Portfolios, Northbound Pt 1 and Northbound Pt 2. These document the sunny week during which I traveled north from Chester to Plockton, all in infrared photos. Some of these had been in the narrative, and have been replaced there with color ones.
I still have an undeveloped roll of slides with photos of Pennan, and intend to insert a couple of them when I finally have them. Aside from that, and perhaps a tweak here or there, this year's project is complete. At sixteen pages and over 450 photographs, it's far bigger than I ever imagined it would be. I'm pretty happy with it! I hope you enjoy it, too.
24 December 2007--SP2BoL Part 5 has arrived in time for Christmas, completing this year's journal. It's a big page, bigger than I'd like, with 39 photos. In fact, this has been the largest project yet posted, with five journal pages and seven Portfolios, including the below-mentioned Callanish and Glen Coe pages, with more than three hundred photographs in all. Thanks to advances in technology, it was done in less than half the time of last year's. Maybe I will finally be able to go back and fill in some of the incomplete pages from previous years.
It's possible that, at some point, I will think about reorganizing this year's journal into six or seven more manageable pages. It's much less likely that I will actually do it! In any case, I hope you enjoy it. Feedback is always welcome at MrTattieHeid@aol.com.
13 December 2007--I had fifteen infrared photos of Caerlaverock Castle that I liked too much to leave languishing in the hard drive, so there is now a Caerlaverock Portfolio page to show them off.
11 December 2007--SP2BoL Part 4 is up. Part 5 will be along very shortly. Astute observers will note that a proper badge has been created for SP2BoL, and that Portfolio pages for Callanish and Glen Coe have already been uploaded. Shhh!
30 November 2007--Part three of SP2BoL has been uploaded. It's a big page, as parts four and five will also be, as I desperately attempt to avoid having to create a part six. There is also a Portfolio page for Knoydart.
Bobby noted that I had gotten rather a bit too fond of the word "alas" in page two. I've edited them all out. Are you happy now? Hardly anybody ever reads all that stuff, anyway...alas.
21 November 2007--Part two of SP2BoL is up. There is now also an introduction at the beginning of part one, and there have been a few other minor revisions.
16 November 2007--Instead of getting parts two and three posted, I have been busy revising part one. I have added photographs and descriptions of two sites that I had neglected to mention, and put in links for websites that have more detailed information on several of the major sites. As well, I have created Portfolio pages of those subjects I felt were deserving of more photos, and dropped several photos of Stonehenge, Avebury, and Salisbury Cathedral from part one, that now appear there. In this way I can do such subjects justice without making the main journal pages any more unwieldy than they already are.
11 November 2007--You may have noticed that I didn't post the new pages during my trip. I decided to enjoy myself instead! The first page of SP2BoL 2007 has now been uploaded, and the groundwork laid for the other pages. It should go pretty quickly now.
17 September 2007--In preparation for my upcoming trip, I have set up blank pages for SP2BoL 2007. With digital camera and laptop in hand, I am hoping to upload material as I go along. We'll see if this pans out!
I have also created a new umbrella page, Portfolios, to act as home for pages of photos that don't fit into the travel narratives. These will include in-depth looks at such subjects as Callanish, various photos taken in and around Quebec City, and who-knows-what kinds of odds and ends. Stay tuned!
1 September 2007--Oregon 2007 is a page of photos from my trip to Oregon in July. There isn't much text, but nobody reads that stuff, anyway! There will be separate pages on my visit to the Clear Creek Distillery and my niece's wedding. Someday. Honest.
9 July 2007--Have added two photos to the October In Orkney photo page, a 360° panorama taken at the Old Man of Hoy, and another view of the Old Man from the ferry.
25 June 2007--This website garnered its 1,000th hit on Sunday, 24 June 2007. Yahoo! Of course, most of those were mildly curious Whisky Magazine forum members popping in and out in a matter of moments. Thanks to those of you with attention spans and morbid curiosity enough to stick around and actually read some of what's here. I guess it's past time I added some content to this site...soon, I promise.
I've gotten quite a few hits here from people searching specifically for the photo titled "Over Bergen" on the Norway page. The google searches have originated from an astonishingly wide variety of countries. If anyone reading this has any idea what that's all about, I'd really like to know! Email me at MrTattieHeid@aol.com.
15 April 2007--I found a 360-degree panorama of the Ardbeg distillery from 2005 that I'd forgotten about, and inserted it into MF2MoG 2005 Photos Page 4.
8 April 2007--Part 5 of GG2BoB 2006 is complete, and, barring any revision, so is this year's entry. Next project is to fill in the missing day in the Norway trip, and then tackle the Brittany/Normandy and Ireland pages.
2 April 2007--Part 4 of GG2BoB 2006 is done. Part 5 will be along shortly. I've fixed a longstanding oversight, putting titles on the bar at the top of each page.
26 March 2007--At last Part 3 of GG2BoB 2006 is up. It's probably the largest page I've done, with 38 photos; that's more than is ideal for a single page, and will take a while to load, but I hope you will find it worthwhile. Part of the delay has been because I wanted to get all of the remaining photos for GG2BoB scanned, so I'd know how I wanted to break up the pages. As a consequence, it shouldn't be nearly as long before parts 4 and 5 are ready.
You have no doubt noticed that I have overhauled the fonts on all the pages. I hope this will give the site a little more personality. All of the fonts I've used are common ones that were bundled with Windows XP, so most of you should see them as intended. If you still see Times New Roman anywhere, and you feel left out, email me and let me know where it is, and I'll be happy to email you the appropriate font.
28 February 2007--I have added a page detailing my recent trip to Seattle and Victoria. In order to accommodate pages that don't fit into the North Atlantic Arc, I have created a nexus page titled Elsewhere.
I bought a digital camera before going west--nothing too fancy, a Fuji Finepix S6000fd. So far I am very happy with the photos I've taken with it. It will speed up the process of creating these pages considerably. To underline that point, I have made very little progress on the remainder of GG2BoB.
18 January 2007--Have upgraded the panoramas in Faroe Islands 2001. Looking over this page, I note that I was experimenting with techniques for reducing contrast between land and sky, and some of the results are rather embarrassingly clumsy. One of these days I will have to rescan a number of these photos.
10 Jan 2007--Part 2 of GG2BoB is finally up. Work on the rest of it is still in very early stages.
25 December 2006--The panoramic photos in Norway 2004 have been re-presented in accordance with my new panoramic standard. They are shown again at screen width at the bottom of the page.
21 December 2006--I have posted the first page of GG2BoB. The second page will be another week, maybe, and pages three and four (and five?) will be a while yet.
10 December 2006--I have reorganized the internal links. The North Atlantic Ring now will take you to the first page of each year's entry. Multiple-page entries have another level of internal links. This is intended to keep the internal links from becoming too cumbersome. I haven't checked every link, so if you run into any anomalies, please let me know. If you have any thoughts on the logic of these internal links, I'd be happy to hear them, as well.
The new page for 2006 is still a long way off. I hope to apply myself to it soon.
5 November 2006--I'm back from Scotland, and work will commence soon on the 2006 page. I wouldn't expect it much before Christmas, though! Will keep you updated here.
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